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Modest proposal
Title: Modest proposal
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 460 | Pages: 2.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Modest proposal
In Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal,” published in 1729, Swift engages in an extraordinary amount of irony and satire. Swift states that in order to reduce famine in Ireland and to solve the problems that they are having that eating children would be a good solution. This is not the purpose of Swift’s essay. The real intent was to get the people of Britain to notice that the ideas that they were coming up …showed first 75 words of 460 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 460 total…to hear what is going to be done about this famine and when something is going to be done. He also shows his concern in this essay for such tragedies that this country is facing or may be facing. He shows that he genuinely cares about what happens and he is willing to help. Nothing will get done about it until someone takes a stand as Swift did by writing this satirical essay of his.
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